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ScreenCloud Fires Up Digital Signage Option For Smart TVs

Several of the big display manufacturers – starting with Samsung – have adapted their consumer smart TV platforms to create commercial-focused “smart signs” that have media players included with screens, but a London, UK-based digital agency is now offering a cloud-based signage platform that works on the sort of smart TVs people pick up at local big box retailers. […]

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Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:48 AM

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16:9: Show + Tell Debuts Totally Free Digital Signage Player App For Newest Apple TV

The New York-based digital signage agency/solutions provider Show + Tell is known for working on very big canvases, like the screens up the street from them in Times Square. But the company has just released a decidedly different product called Video Sign Player – a free, entry-level signage player app that runs on the newest version of the Apple TV set-top box. […]

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Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:33 PM

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16:9: Google’s Evolving Future In Digital Signage

  Google booth at DSE 2015 The digital signage ecosystem has developed at least two distinct camps, with distinct points of view, about the presence of tech giant Google in this relatively teeny industry. On one hand, there are people like me who think a company with a huge impact and footprint on the everyday working and personal lives of billions is hard to dismiss and ignore. […]

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Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:58 PM

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Raspberry Pi Gets Custom Manufacturing

Web traffic tells me there are a lot of people out there interested in using Raspberry Pi micro-computer boards as digital signage players, since it is possible to put together a player for less than $100. […]

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Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:58 AM

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How Four Winds Used Own Product To Boost Morale, Culture And Employee Engagement

If there was a highlight for me from last week’s Forward conference in Denver, it was probably the opening session run by David Levin, the CEO of Four Winds Interactive, which put the event on. I’d tend to think of these kick-off sessions as welcomes and walk-throughs of what to expect, and not a bunch more. […]

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Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:01 AM

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16:9: Impressions From Four Winds’ Forward Event

Sitting at Denver’s airport, lamenting how I managed to book a flight with a time window that pretty much mirrors the time window for tonight’s Blue Jays-Royals game. No WiFi on plane, so I am pooched. Go Jays. […]

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Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 6:15 PM

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IntuiLab Turns On Interactive Toolset For ChromeOS Digital Signage

The French firm IntuiLab has developed and announced a version of its interactive screen tools to work with low-cost Chromeboxes and all-in-one Chromebase displays. The hook to the IntuiFace platform is its ability to enable slick, highly interactive HTML5-based experiences without the designer, developer or network operator need to know much of anything about coding. […]

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Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:41 PM

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Open Source Concerto Digital Signage Platform Gets Commercial SaaS Version

  Some of the people who developed the open source digital signage platform Concerto, when they were students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, have now developed a commercial wrapper of Concerto aimed at users who want a low-cost, intuitive system, but don’t want to manage servers. […]

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Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:53 AM

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The Virtual Dressing Room Goes To The Museum

The virtual dressing room thing right in a retail environment escapes me a little bit (being old, male and clueless never helps), but a software company that specializes in this stuff recently showcased an interesting, very different use for the tech at a famed museum. Zugara was one of a short list of companies asked to demonstrate their goodies at the Smithsonian Innovation Festival. […]

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Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:23 PM

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16:9: Industry Weapon Says It’s Now Driving Signage On Chromeboxes

Pittsburgh’s Industry Weapon has formally joined the list of companies that have developed applications to work with Google ChromeOS-driven Chromeboxes and all-in-one Chromebases. The company, known for many years as a top Cisco partner, says the devices will work with its SaaS-based CMS platform, called CommandCenterHD. […]

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Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:57 AM

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16:9: Signage Buyers Growing More Sophisticated, Says Four Winds CEO Levin

Four Winds Interactive is having its first big conference in Denver next week – an event called Forward that is something of a departure from typical software company events that are mostly about product education, sales and contract retention. The agenda for this event is instead populated mainly by outside speakers, albeit most of them partners or major customers. […]

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Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:57 AM

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16:9’s Special Report: The State of ARM and Android In Digital Signage

There are dozens of digital signage software companies with content management systems built around or adapted to work with low-cost ARM-based media devices, and run on Google’s Linux-derived Android operating system. What started as a trickle of activity four years turned into a big wave within a couple of years. […]

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Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:20 AM

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Coming Tomorrow: The State Of Android Digital Signage Report

Client commitments greatly slowed research and production, but I’ve finally completed work on what I think is a thorough look into the state of the Android digital signage marketplace. I will upload it and make it available as a free, no-strings-attached download tomorrow off Sixteen:Nine. It’s 23 pages, so set some time aside. […]

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Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:26 AM

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16:9: Chromebox Digital Signage Players Will Soon Double As Bluetooth Beacons

There’s been lots of chatter about the interplay of digital signage and Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons, so it’s interesting to read that signage networks running on Chromeboxes will soon be able to use the players as the beacons, via Google’s emerging Eddystone protocol. That set-up enables Chromeboxes to shoot URLs to smartphones with Bluetooth enabled. […]

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Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:59 PM

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16:9: Mvix Launches All-In $259 Digital Signage Player & Software Bundle

The Sterling, Virginia-based signage firm Mvix has launched a new hardware/software bundle that gets users a teeny Intel-based player and lifetime software for just $259. […]

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Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:57 AM

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